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Robert Dunlap (abt. 1740 - abt. 1781)

Ensign [uncertain] Robert Dunlap
Born about in Augusta, Virginiamap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Son of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
Husband of — married 1763 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 41 in Guilford, North Carolina, United Statesmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Disputed Identity
Roll of Honor
Ensign Robert Dunlap was Killed in Action during the American Revolution.

According to Rev. J. A. M. Hanna, this Robert Dunlap was born in 1740, the second son of Capt. Alexander Dunlap (1716-1744) and Anne MacFarlane (1715-1786). He married in 1763 to Mary Gay, [1] and served with Major General Nathanael Greene as an ensign in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, where was he killed in action on 23 Jan 1781. Robert and Mary are said to have had children: [2]

  1. Ann, b. 1765, m. David McKee/McKay of Jessamine County, Kentucky
  2. Alexander, b. 1764, m. Jane Alexander, d. 1841

But according to Oren Frederic Morton, the Robert Dunlap who was killed at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse married in 1763 to Martha Graham; [3] and Mary Page Colcord Dunlap shows him dying in 1791. [4]

Sources

  1. History of Woodford County, Kentucky, by William Edward Railey, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1975, reprint of 1938 edition, Frankfort, Kentucky, pg. 159.
  2. The House of Dunlap by Rev. James Arthur MacClellan Hanna, Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1956, pp. xxi, 88, 109, 375.
  3. A History of Monroe County, West Virginia, by Oren F. Morton, Ruebush-Elkins Co., Dayton, Va., 1916, p. 336
  4. Dunlap Family Tree, descendants of William Dunlap (Dom Gulielmus de Dunlap), born in Ayrshire, Scotland cir. 1260, by Mary Page Colcord Dunlap, 1989

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